A website for a builder — get found and look legit
If you are a builder, a website has one job: when someone in your town needs an extension, a loft, or a full renovation, they find you, see that your work is good, and ask you for a quote. Sorted Online writes and publishes that website for you in minutes — your own domain and forwarding email included, £15 a month by UK Direct Debit, nothing to pay today.
What a builder's website actually needs
Most builder websites fail because they try to do too much. Yours needs five things and nothing more:
- Photos of recent jobs. Before and after beats a stock photo of a hard hat every time. Real sites, real streets, real finishes.
- The jobs you take on. Extensions, loft conversions, kitchens, bathrooms, garden walls, full refurbishments. Say the words your customers say.
- The areas you cover. "Based in [town], working across [towns]." This is how you show up when someone searches for a builder near me.
- A clear way to ask for a quote. One obvious button or form. Not a five-page contact funnel.
- Proof you are real. Insurance, qualifications, and reviews. For building work, trust is the whole sale.
What customers type before they call you
Builders rarely get found for "building services". They get found for a job plus a place: "extension builder Bury", "loft conversion Stockport", "bathroom fitting Wigan". Nobody types those into a directory if they can find a recommended local firm with a proper website. Your pages should name the work and the towns in plain language — the same words a customer would say out loud.
The three things that lose you jobs
- No website at all. When a customer checks you out, an empty search result reads as "not a real business".
- Only a Facebook page. It works until the customer wants to see finished work in one place, or your page gets buried.
- A site that is hard to read on a phone. Most of your customers are standing on a building site or in a kitchen when they look for you.
What it costs
One price: £15 a month for your website, your own domain, and forwarding email on that domain. Paid by UK Direct Debit through GoCardless, cancel when you are ready to stop. There is nothing to pay at sign-up, and your site does not wait for the Direct Debit to activate. See how much a small business website costs for what you would pay elsewhere.
How it works
- Tell us about the business: what you build, where you work, how to reach you.
- We write and publish the pages for you — no design tools, no blank template.
- Choose the domain you want; we register it and set it up.
- Add a Direct Debit and you are live.
You can change your details later. Tell us and we update the site.
Where a directory profile fits
Checkatrade, MyBuilder, and local Facebook groups are useful, and you should keep them. But those profiles belong to someone else, and you share the customer's attention with every other tradesperson on the page. A website with your name on it is yours: it is the place you send people, and the place that answers "can I trust this builder?" before they ever phone.
Next step
Start your website. It takes a few minutes, and your first site is usually live within a few minutes after that. If you already have a domain you want to keep, we will connect it for you.
Not sure yet? Read how to get your business on Google, or compare a done-for-you site with building it yourself on Wix.